Explore how to ensure reliability in ML models. Gain insights into software testing, ML-specific techniques, runtime checks, and monitoring tools to build robust ML systems effectively.

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Ensuring the reliability and robustness of machine learning models is essential to building successful ML-powered applications.

This course begins with a thorough introduction to software testing essentials, particularly use cases within the machine learning context. You’ll learn about topics related to software testing, including unit and integration testing and more advanced testing techniques. Next, you’ll learn the best practices in software testing and dive into ML-specific testing techniques, such as behavioral and smoke tests. Lastly, you’ll cover the aspects of ML software reliability outside of testing, including runtime checks and type hinting.

By the end of this course, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to ensure the reliability and robustness of your machine learning systems. You’ll be able to apply software engineering principles to your ML processes, create and execute efficient testing approaches, and utilize monitoring tools to identify and resolve problems in your ML systems.

Reliable Machine Learning

# Overview

**Strong static typing** catches many errors that can be missed in a dynamic typing environment. Python's **type hinting** can slightly reduce the need for runtime checks. It also improves code understanding for other engineers.

Let's consider an example below. First, we'll execute the code below to see if it works successfully or not with the broken type annotation.


from typing import List

def sum_odds(numbers: List[int]):
    return sum(x for x in numbers if x % 2)

print(sum_odds([1, 2., 3, 4]))

# Python's `typing`
For those who haven't worked with typing in Python yet, we introduce a standard Python library called `typing`. Below, we'll cover a few of the most important types used in most production code.

## `List` and `Set`

Here are two examples of using the `List` and `Set` types.



Learn about typing in Python and use MyPy to fix typing in suggested functions.

Introduction to Reliable ML

Software Testing

Best and Worst Practices

ML-Specific Tests

ML Software Reliability outside of Tests

Wrapping Up

Appendix

Type Hinting

Overview

Python’s `typing`

Type Hinting

Overview

Python’s typing

Python’s `typing`